ACLU Intervenes In Georgia Voting Rights Act Challenge...The Progressive Network wants audit of South Carolina election results...New York's new voting machines could disenfranchise thousands if not fixed. "What's striking about this problem is that it is easily avoidable. Election jurisdictions are able to control whether the machine 'warns' voters, or not." ~ James Hicks, EVIC...

CA: 'Human Error', 'Design Weakness', 'System Limitations' Blamed for Failures I Encountered(Again) This Year on L.A. County's E-Voting Systemhttp://www.bradblog.com/?p=7931Registrar issues 5-page report, offering explanations for the no-less-than-6 different problems that occurred when I attempted to cast my ballot on the ES&S voting system last month..

Now it looks like the results will be in limbo at least until Friday, when a Riverside County judge has set a hearing to consider whether 12,500 uncounted ballots can legally be counted.

GA: ACLU Intervenes In Georgia Voting Rights Act Challengehttp://www.aclu.org/voting-rights/aclu-intervenes-georgia-voting-rights-act-challenge"The many U.S. citizen minority voters in Georgia who were incorrectly flagged as non-citizens under the state's voter-verification procedures can attest to the fact that discrimination in voting continues and the need for Section 5 remains," said Laughlin McDonald of the ACLU Voting Rights Project.

NY: Make sure every vote is countedhttp://www.lohud.com/article/20100707/OPINION/7070304/Make-sure-every-vote-is-counted"Numerous sources, including the state board, the voting machine vendor and independent computer scientists, have confirmed to us that requiring the machines to return overvote ballots requires only 'checking a box' in the setup file for these systems," said Lawrence Norden, senior counsel at the Brennan Center. He added, "It will not cause delay to do the right thing."

The glitch should be remedied before the machines are put into statewide use.

NY: Does not compute: Board of Elections needs to fix glitch in new voting machineshttp://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/07/06/2010-07-06_does_not_compute.htmlA dangerous glitch in New York's new electronic voting machines could disqualify thousands of ballots this fall....This is idiotic. The clunky old lever voting machines New Yorkers have used for decades make it physically impossible to choose two candidates for a single office. As it should be.

OH: Officials seek compensation for bad ballotsPrinting error blamed on incorrect settingshttp://www.ohio.com/news/97917264.html A printing error shifted the ovals filled in by voters in the May primary on 82 absentee ballots, making it impossible for the scanners to read the ballots. Board employees checked more than 9,000 absentee ballots by hand to make sure every vote was counted.

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